Curiosities of savage life : second series

[Keywords: Wood engravings--1863]

Includes bibliographical references to New Zealand. "First series" & "Second series" on each spine. *First edition of a compendium, illustrated by Harden S. Melville, artist on the Fly expedition in the Great Barrier Reef and Northern Australia in 1841. The work includes Melville's own description of the local tribesman Neinmal, who was taken on board the Fly at Port Essington, as well as his depiction of 'Surf Swimming off the coast of Hawaii'. References to Australia and the Pacific are found throughout, including descriptions of "the ceremony of 'Kebarrah' among the Bushmen of Australia", 'Australian Kuri dance and other corroborees', 'a Port Essington swell', or 'the affecting narrative of Jacky-Jacky' (the story of the only survivor of the Kennedy expedition).